here's an idea from sandy terhell from afton, minnesota. so simple, so easy. she wanted to mark straight quilting lines on the quilt she was making for her granddaughter. no marker that she had really showed up well, so she cut strips of fabric, pinned them to the quilt and machine quilted right along the edge. unpinned them, no marks, no problem. speaking of straight lines betty kelly from crestline, ohio, says no matter how carefully she sews she seems to get her strip sets crooked so to solve the problem, she fastens a tape measure to her ironing board and presses the strip sets using the tape edge as a guide and no more crooked strip sets. she's blocking them as she goes. here's a big photograph from trae mcneill from muleshoe, texas. muleshoe! she says, "i don't want to take my quilting gloves off every time i need to change a bobbin, unsew a seam, pick off a loose thread." so she cut the fingertips out of her gripper gloves. now she can do the fine-motion things without taking those gloves off. there's one more bit of advice. pat lyons from pocatello, id